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Vana

#8,323 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Ivana

Vana has been given to 558 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #8,323 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1948, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Vana, 2025

1 in 255,000

Vana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vana: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Ivana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vana means

Vana is a short form of Ivana.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 558 girls were recorded with the name Vana between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1948; its best national rank was #2,121 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,063 in 2020 to #8,323 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Vana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,323
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vana was born before 1963 — so the typical Vana is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
456
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Vana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+6,795
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,740
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
59.1%
Peak was 1948 (22)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,121
1948

Spellings of Vana

Vana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.4% against Vana's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vana is used

Across 1910–2025, Vana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 762,513 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vana around the world

Where Vana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2021–2021
    #7,076
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2017–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Vana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,323
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,740
Best rank ever
#2,121
1948
Peak year
1948
22 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
558
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Vana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

VaniCanaManaVandanaIanaVanyaKanaVanMyanaVannaAvanaZianaOhanaNyanaMianaBanaAmanaXianaVianaXanaVaniaVanniaLyanaEyana

Sibling names for Vana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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